misogyny

  • Why Feminist Burnout Feels So Lonely

    In some city, in some room washed blue by the light of a screen, there is a girl discovering that awareness is much easier to awaken than it is to survive. At first, knowing felt like coming up for air. Like breathing after being held underwater and realising that there was an entirely different world…

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  • Beyond the Veil

    “It’s like having a flower, or a rose. You water it and keep it at home for yourself, to look at it and smell it. It [a woman] is not supposed to be taken out of the house to be smelled.“ -Syed Ghaisuddin, Taliban Minister of Education, when asked why women needed to be confined…

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